Coelacanth fossils like these are useful because two known coelacanth species are still alive today. They are likened to ...

In a discovery that challenges our understanding of Earth's ancient history, researchers have found evidence suggesting that ...

Researchers have found evidence suggesting that our planet may have once had a ring system around 466 million years ago.

The ancient coelacanth, which has existed for some 419 million years, never stopped evolving despite its reputation as a ...

Coelacanths are deep-sea fish that live off the coasts of southern Africa and Indonesia and can reach up to two metres in ...

An exceptionally well-preserved skull from a fish which lived 384–382 million years ago helps explain how plate tectonics played a key role in the evolution of ancient bony fish which eventually led ...

Researchers in China and Australia have created an animation that details Earth's tectonic movements over the past 1.8 ...

Our planet has an outer layer made up of several plates, which move relative to one another. While we may take this knowledge ...

Within just a few million years, the continental plates begin to bend and squish toward each other. Around 200 million years ...

Rocky planets that are about earth-size, or maybe two to three times larger, will offer the best chances for simple microbial ...

An Osaka Metropolitan University study on over 500,000 lung cancer patients found that higher BMI lowered death risk during ...

Watch how Earth looked like 1.8 billion years ago; witness its journey from then to now: The video also revisits the so-called ‘boring billion’ period, spanning from 1.8 billion to 0.8 billion years ...